30 for 30 Shorts This new episode documents the night President George W. Bush stepped onto the mound at Yankee Stadium to throw out the first pitch at Game 3 of the 2001World Series, seven weeks after the Sept. 11...

Small ball was supposed to be all the rage in the NBA after the Golden State Warriors benched center Andrew Bogut on the way to their first championship in 40 years.
A bevy of big men poked their heads back into the proceedings Thursday night, showing...

The 40-year basketball drought finally ended, the Golden State Warriors flush with their first championship since 1975.
Champagne sprayed like geysers in the locker room Tuesday after the Warriors eliminated the Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 6 of the NBA...

Meanwhile, there are the Golden State Warriors.
The scorching-hot limelight can't leave LeBron James — Is he fatigued? Can he win with this ragtag bunch? How's his head? — but Golden State tiptoed back into the NBA Finals with a smooth, very Warrior-like...

LeBron James wore a black pork pie hat after Game 4, covering up the stitches he received after tumbling head-first into a courtside TV camera.
You have to wonder: What else is he hiding?
He looked fatigued and worn when the Cleveland Cavaliers needed...

There's something notably missing from this year's NBA Finals — a villain.
LeBron James made nice with the people of Cleveland, casually flicking away four years of ill will from his hometown team and scads of NBA followers who detested the way he...

LeBron James should have had a stethoscope hanging around his neck as he reeled off the latest medical updates on him and his teammates.
"It goes without saying that we're banged up right now," the pseudo Dr. J said Saturday.
As they prepare...

Stephen Curry scored 40 points, including a three-pointer in the final seconds of regulation to complete a 20-point fourth-quarter comeback, and the Golden State Warriors beat the Pelicans, 123-119, in overtime Thursday night in New Orleans to take a...

I'm with Byron Scott, the idea the Lakers should tank is a lot of ignorant hooey. First, the Lakers have done well finding good picks deeper in the draft.
Second, when a team wins, other players in the league take notice. If the Lakers start winning more...

In a bleak Southland college basketball winter devoid of wow, it's the most startling of sights.
Ben Howland, sitting in a Century City restaurant in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon, showing off a smartphone photo of him reading a book to his...

The rise of New Orleans' Anthony Davis has been swift and has placed him at the doorstep of stardom in the NBA.
Then again, many around the league say the 21-year-old All-Star power forward is already one of the top five players in the game.
They...

Bit by bit, clues are being dropped about when the Lakers might shut down Kobe Bryant.
"I'm pretty sure if we're nowhere near playoff contention in March or something like that, then we might discuss that," Lakers Coach Byron Scott said...

Perhaps the moment when Portland's LaMarcus Aldridge truly entered the consciousness of NBA fans was in the first-round playoff series against the Houston Rockets last season.
The Trail Blazers won in six games with Aldridge putting up back-to-back...

An hour after Cleveland suffered its worst defeat of the season, a 29-point blowout to Atlanta on Wednesday night, LeBron James sat in a chair on the baseline with a cold drink in his hand and watched his young teammate, point guard Kyrie Irving, work...

Broderick Turner picks the West (in predicted order of finish)
PLAYOFF-BOUND
1.San Antonio
2013-14 finish: 62-20.
Coming: Kyle Anderson.
Going: No one of significance.
Despite a storied history, the Spurs have never won back-to-back titles. In...